MP confident about Iraqi wheat market

Patrick Secker, the Member for Barker, in south-east South Australia, is confident Australian wheat growers will not lose their share of the Iraqi market to the United States.

He says Australia exports a million tonnes of wheat to Iraq annually, and after supporting the US in the war, is now in a strong bargaining position.

Mr Secker says the Federal Government has already given 100,000 tonnes of wheat in aid, paid for by the United Nations, and he expects at least another 900,000 tonnes will be exported to Iraq this year.